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There is not much one can say
when confronted with the senseless
violence that disrupted the 20th
Olympic Games Tuesday.
As this editorial goes to press,
two men are reportedly already
dead and other lives are in
jeopardy. There was no reason for
these men to die; no cause was
advanced by the terrorists who
chose violence as their means of
expression and action.
There are times when men and
women give their lives to advance a
cause. Of such sacrifices are the
making of ultimate dedication to a
cause.
But in this attack on the Israelis
in the Olympic village, no cause was
advanced. These actions will not
Transit problems
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essrve solution
Another year has begun in
Chapel Hill with the parking and
t r a n s p o rtation problems in the
town and on the campus as serious
as ever.
The campus police expect just as
many cars to be fighting for parking
spaces on campus this fall as has
been the case in past years. This
means 15,000 cars and fewer than
8,000 places in which to put them
on campus, since no expanded
parking facilities were made
available over the summer.
The parking problems around
N.C. Memorial Hospital and the
Med School will eventually be
solved by a multi-level parking deck
the University is asking the N.C.
General Assembly to fund for
1973-1975.
But little has been definitely
accomplished toward a permanent
solution to the problem of too
many cars, though efforts have
been made.
The Joint Transportation
Commission proposed a bus plan
for the town and campus to begin
Joe Hill
Under standing the McGovern defeat
According to Gerry Cohen's census of
socialist on campus, we number 186-no
more, no less. Not that many came to the
first meeting of the class series ; on
Monday so we,ll never know how many
factions there are.
I suppose, though, that Gerry was
counting himself as the 187th faction. At
least last year he was claiming to be a
socialist. This claim was made in the
course of a reply to a Joe Hill column.
Gerry has never bothered to respond, to
our letter of rejoinder. -
There are people who call themselves
socialists who propose a strategy of
working as a 'left-wing within the
Democratic Party. Many are associated
with the remnants of the Socialist Party.
Their most articulate spokesperson is
Michael Harrington. We would prefer to
call them social democrats, since that is
their more common designation
throughout the world. ;
- Now we don't agree" with that strategy.
And we didn't agree with it last year.
Than doesn't mean we're Yippies,
Weatherpeople, or anarchists. We don't
propose mindless violence or
individualistic terrorism as means to build
a more democratic, more civilized
society. '
In the current issues of Workers'
Power James Coleman is writing a series
on "Elections under Capitalism", which
provides an extended analysis of why we
disagree with the social democrats and
Evans Witt, Editor
Wednesday, September 6, 1972
death
make the world listen any more to
the many just grievances of those
displaced by the strife in the Middle
East. This violence can only cause
greater bitterness where there is
already too much. The blood that
has been shed in Munich senselessly
is but another evidence that death
follows where men treat other men
as symbols, not as equal human
beings.
It may be that this violence has
ended the 20th Olympic Games and
perhaps terminated that whole
tradition of sports competition.
It may be that we have come to
the point that the idealism
expressed, however imperfectly, in
the Olympic Games, cannot survive
the pressures of our world.
in the fall of 1973, but the
prospects for that system are
looking dimmer as the month goes
oh. Tlie Carfboro Board of
Aldermen voted not to hold a
referendum in November on
financing the bus system and
Friday the Chapel Hill board
similarly delayed any public vote
on the proposed transit system. But
Commission members are still
hopeful of a town referendum for
January, 1973, and operation next
fall despite recent setbacks.
We do not at the present endorse
the proposed bus system. There are
many problems and questions that .
still trouble us about the proposal.
This town and the University
have had a serious traffic problem
for a number of years and still have
refused to take the initiative to
alleviate the problem. It is past time
for the University, Chapel Hill and
Carrboro to work closely together
to take definite positive steps
toward the alleviation of their joint
traffic and parking problems that
trouble this area.
why we favor a worker's party.
With regard to the Democratic Party
he notes that it claims " to be 'the party
of the people'. While the Democrats have
often used this claim for purely
electioneering purposes, the claim has not
been entirely cynical. Millions of labor
and minority voters, thousands of
activists in these movements, have made
the Democratic Party their home in the
honest belief that it was what it claimed.
"Instead the Democratic Party has
been the graveyard of their reform hopes,
for reasons beyond their control."
After tracing the history of urban
political machines, Coleman turns to the
built-in limitations on reform. The high
cost of campaigning has been made much
of this year, but few have considered the
undemocratic nature of " the two-party
system.
" It provides for alternation in office
but it keeps minor parties out of
Congress. In most European; countries,
some form of proportional representation
allows minority parties-for example, all
those which get 5 or 10 percent of the
vote-at least a few seats in parliament.
"The fact that in the United States
only the candidates with the largest
number of votes can be seated creates an
enormous pressure on minority
movement to merge with a major party,
. and on candidates in the major parties to
place party unity above all other
"I hate to sound impatient," Pete
McManus was saying, "but whenis that
worthless freak going to get here?
After drinking since midafternoon,
Pete McManus was feeling pretty groggy.
He was fingering the patch over his left
eye.
"I was at work one day bending over
to pick up a wrench when some dumb
Polack swung a muffler right into my
face," he had explained earlier. "I'm just
lucky he didn't put my eye out."
That had been Pete McManus last day
in the auto repair shop. Two days later, as
he sat in a dingy New Jersey bar trying to
figure out how to parlay his A.B. in
political science into an easy job, he had
been approached by a local building
contractor.
'This guy was the original rip-off
artist. His final bills usually averaged
about eighty percent more than his
original estimates and people were always
coming in threatening to shoot him. All I
had to do was just stand behind his desk
by Chicago Tribune -"""Os ' 'VCT V
Rudy Hanner
B
rinsing relevance to television
September has arrived and the new TV
programs will soon be on the air. With
this in mind, a friend of mine drafted a
list of programs he would like to see this
fall. Although the list is purely
hypothetical it does offer some
interesting ideas. It reads like this: -
One: This year the FBI takes on and
solves the Watergate Caper. For this
program the cast will remain the same,
however, by necessity the CIA might
make a guest appearance. In fact, the
entire Justice Department might appear,
but as yet it is hard to say precisely what
role they would play.
Two: A revival of the Old Gary Moore
"I've Got A Secret" show. In the new
series President Nixon will be the only
guest participant and he will attempt to
reveal within the scheduled .342 showings
considerations.
"Despite these limitations, reform
politics flourish in the United States.
Hardly an election goes by without some
reform campaign, major or minor. These
reform campaigns, and the less frequent
occasions when reformers capture on of
the major parties, provide a good deal of
the illusion of representativeness in the
U.S. party system.
"Bourgeois politics contains at its
fringes various figures who genuinely
attempt to achieve basic reforms within
the framework of the bourgeois system.
While their ideological commitment to
capitalism renders most of their reforms
hopelessly Utopian, they are sometimes
able-especially when there is widespread
popular discontent-to emerge into the
political limelight.
"If they succeed in gaining the
Presidential nomination, there is the risk
of the real powers sitting out the election.
Aside from McGovern in 1972, this
happened in 1964 when Barry Goldwater
captured the Republican nomination,
only to lose the backing of his party. ?
"His conservative supporters learned
what radicals in the Democratic Party
seem unable to learn-the real power is
held by shrewd, careful, moderate
conservatives who can sink most
candidates they consider too risky
"In sum, the capitalist election is a
weeding-out process. The voters have
looking like a hood. It was a great job 'til
last Friday when a guy really did come
in there waving a gun. I was out of there
so fast I didn't even pick up my
paycheck."
So Pete McManus was back in Chapel
Hill, waiting for an old dealer friend and
trying to get a date.
Tm down to my last telephone
number," he said, pulling a tattered card
from his wallet. "There's not even a name
with it, but I think I know who it belongs
to." He eyed the card in the dim light.
"A good girl - a little sleazy, maybe, but
definitely not the impossible dream. I
think IH give it a try."
About a minute later Pete McManus
returned to the living room iwth a
disgusted look on his face.
"I found out who that number
belonged to. 'Nicholas and Alexandra has
already started at Plaza I but we can still
make the 8:30 showing of 'Fiddler on the
Roof at Plaza II."
The Olympics were moving into their
of the program just exactly what his
secret to end the Vietnam War was and
what happened to it.
Three: "Longstreet" will return to the
air for another year. In the new series,
however, Mauri Stans will play the role of
the leading character and he will attempt
to show the American public how a man
who is hired for the position of Finance
Chairman for a national campaign might
let $114,00 pass over his desk without
him even seeing it.
Four: "General Hospital" will also
return for another season and the first
guest star will be Dita Beard who will
inform the public of the grief and fear
which normally accompany the heart
attack, and, on the other hand, the
advantages that can be derived by having
the attack occur at the proper time.
their say on election day. But long before
this, the candidates have run the gauntlet
several times.
"First, to be born and educated into
the middle or upper class-which supply
nearly all the candidates, and are
completely - out of touch with the way
most American live.
"Second, to gain the friends and
backing for a political career-which
usually means a careful adjustment to the
prevailing winds.
"Third, to get the money and backing
necessary for a Presidential Campaign.
"Fourth, to gain the nomination of a
major party, dominated by careful
money.
"Fifth, to convince the party leaders,
the business establishment, the press, etc.,
that they are 'suitable'
candidates perhaps with a good reform
line if times are troubled, but safe.
"On election day, the voters will have
thier choice between two such carefully
chosen candidates. But the real eelction,
in which the candidates compete for the
backing of business and its representatives
in the parties and press, has already
: occured."
We recommend this scries of articles to
our readers, especially those who support
George McGovern-not to add to their
sense of isolation by attacking them from
the left. Rather we would hope to lay the
basis for understanding what's probably
going to be a disheartening fall.
tenth day on ABC, and during each
bicycle race or women's volleyball game,
a sign would flash by on the screen:
"Coming up. Mark Spitz tries for seventh
gold medal"
"Great. We've only been waiting two
hours and 5 1 Schlitz pole vaults." Pete
McManus looked toward the door.
"Where is that guy? This is easily the
most invigorating evening I've spent since
that wedding I went to. Did I tell you
guys about that?"
Pete McManus hadn't told the guys
about the wedding.
"It goes off okay, you know, until the
reception is about four hours old. Only
the hard core juice freaks are left by then,
and I'm standing out on the terrace
talking to the groom. All of a sudden this
old lush staffers out and starts slobbering
all over me I guess he thought I was the
one who'd gotten married. Anyway, he's
crying. 'Son,' he says, 'I'm 46 years old.
I'm 46 years old and I've been afraid all
my life. I finally get this boo-hoo back to
Five: The Republican Campaign
Committee will feature an all-day,
all-night, all-day,' all-night, all-day,
all-night Telethon. The Master of
Ceremonies will be Martha Mitchell-and
she will endeavor to stay on the phone
the entire program.
Six: H & R Block will feature a fifteen
minute program on the American Tax
System. Guest speaker will be Ronald
Reagan who will explain some of the
complications that may be encountered
when paying tax and how both
complications and tax might be avoided.
Seven: The old army show,'The Big
Picture", will be revived for the new
season. In the new series retired Air Force
General John Lavelle will give a lecture
on the benefits of military career. He will
deal in depth on the "New Discipline" in
the service and in this connection, he will
explain how an officer can willfully
disobey an order by the Commander in
Chief and still retire from the service with
a $27,000 a year tax- free pension.
Eight: The old TV program, "The
Defenders", will also be revived. In the
new series Richard Kleindienst and John
Mitchell will play the charging young
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his car and I'm walking back inside when
I see another old guy standing toe to toe
with his wife and yelling, 'You bitch.'
Then he knocks her out cold with one
shot to the chin
By this time Mark Spitz had won his
seventh gold medal, ABC had saluted the
American gold medal winners and
somewhere in Munich a coupk of
Palestinians were probably already
loading their guns. Channel 5 was in
complete control ag3in.
"It's eleven o'clock," an announcer
intoned. "Do you know where your
children are?"
"Probably with their parents," Pete
McManus said. "At a wedding."
An alcoholic stupor was settling across
the room.
"Well, Mac," somebody finally said,
"You've graduated; you haven't got a job;
I hate to bum you out, but what are you
gonna do?"
"I don't know, man," Pete McManus
said, shaking his head. "Maybe HI pull a
Mudhead: 'find a bunch of guys, dress
alike, follow 'em around and pick up
some girls. Or maybe ..."
There was, a knock at the door,
quickly followed by the entrance of a guy
carrying two plastic bags.
"Mac," he said. "Sorry I'm so late, but
it took a while. Jesus, what happened to
your eye?"
"It's like this," Pete McManus was
saying as he rose from his chair. "I was in
the City last month when these three
punks jumped me. One of 'em had a
knife" - Pete McManus went into a
crouch - "and there I was all alone, with
nothing but a beer bottle "
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lawyers who are defending ITT injts
efforts to buy the world. The program
will feature some beautiful shots of
on-scene locations in San Diego,
California, Chile and the White House.
Nine: "All in the Family" will return
but in a revised version. In the new series
George Meany win play the starring role
of Archie Bunker'and he will zero in on
those who apologize to the Communist.
Meany will also 'exhibit his qualifications
as a historian f 'when, in one of the
performances, " hie " will explain what a
tremendous gesture for peace the ITS
made in 1946 by reducing the size of its
armies when alt it had to depend on was
sole ownership of the A-bomb.
Ten: "Mission Impossible" will also
appear for another season but this, time
the cast will have the most impossible
mission of all. They will try to portray
Jessie Helms as a moderate.
Of course, my friend realizes that his
programs will . never be aired, but it
somewhat discouraging. Many of his
proposals are a lot more interesting than
most of the junk, that appears on the
screen today. ' ; .
(Hariri
Witt, Editor
Norman Black, Managing Editor
Jessica Hanchar, News Editor
Howie Carr, Associate Editor
Doug Hall, Associate Editor
David Zucchino, Sports Editor
Bruce Mann, Feature Editor